Weather. And other things.

[kyrielle]

Yesterday was heat: open all the windows for a cross-breeze, get the fans (pretty tolerable once that was done). Today? Rain, as the weatehrman told us. It's light out there, and the sky is pale to midtones grey, and it is raining, steady but so light you can only see it if you stare.

I'm sitting here listening to the squeak and cheep of the birds, and the patter of the rain - on tree leaves, blackberry leaves, grass, dirt. I think I may go out and stand in it for a bit. I love the rain, I absolutely love it, and it's beautiful right now - not too heavy.

It's been a good day. The laundry's done (well, one blanket is still drying, and the towels need folding). The dishes are done (yesterday, actually - Scott took care of the ones the dishwasher couldn't handle.

And me? In spite of being woken up so early by the garbage truck, I'm still feeling awake and chipper. Every "normal" mush character I have (as opposed to tabletop characters run in a mush environment) has had a scene today.

Every. Single. One. Including the one being retired, who got her last "needed" scene before retirement in. It was a sad scene - what she's doing is not exactly endearing her to her friends, even though she's absolutely sure it's right (she's absolutely wrong, but hey, that's what faith is for). But it was a fun scene.

Then I hauled out the alt I am keeping there, hung in a bar, and dissed family with a group of people who don't even know ic (as most don't know) that any of the people under discussion are family to my character. Hee. And the cat? Was catlike at someone, and got a bit of petting. Not a spectacular scene for Zul, in the sense that it carried no plot points - just meeting someone for the first time and (per her usual) insisting on being petted.

It was peculiarly fun. Those scenes generally are short - they sort of have to be, unless you have someone where both the player and the character are a cat person and the exchange can then go on for a bit longer - but they're enjoyable. They set tones, they tell Zul (and me) a bit about the person she's meeting. And they require a lot less care and thought than anything more serious. She's a hard one to keep track of - but when meeting a new person who is not blatantly scary? Hi, I'm A Cute Cat. Pet Me! (Alternately, Feed Me! if the setting is right.) Easy, fun - and I can go back over it after, if I need to.

Also, porpentine pointed out Dungeon Siege to me. You know, I read a comic strip that commented on this for three days, missed all the references, and never realized it? Anyway, I've tried the demo. I think I'm going to end up getting the game. The normal difficulty setting didn't absolutely slaughter me (it was difficult in places, I grant), so maybe just maybe this game won't make me feel stupid.

Besides, it can run - USEFULLY and ENJOYABLY - on my laptop. If the game itself has no requirements beyond the demo (other than more disk space), anyway. This amuses me a great deal.

I think I'll do some more cleaning about the house today. Quickly organize the kitchen; move stuff into the under-eaves area that needs to go there; finish sorting the master bath out.

But I'm gonna go stand in the rain first. Did I mention that it's raining, and it's pretty?